# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/da-chen
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:56:15.619Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/da-chen"
name: "Da Chen"
slug: "da-chen"
description: "Da Chen was a Chinese-American author whose works included Colors of the Mountain, Brothers, and Sword. Colors of the Mountain gave rise to a version for young readers, China's Son, and a sequel, Sounds of the River. The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Herald and Publishers Weekly hailed Brothers as the best book of 2006."
tagline: "American writer (1962–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Da_Chen_8-20-2007_(crop).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962"
deathDate: "2019-12-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.3
  momentum:             9.107142857142854
  historical:           6.544241333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.dachen.org/"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E8%BE%BE_(1962%E5%B9%B4)"
    title: "陈达 (1962年)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%86"
    title: "دا تشن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Chen"
    title: "Da Chen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Chen"
    title: "Da Chen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Chen"
    title: "Da Chen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B0_(%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C)"
    title: "Чен, Да (американский писатель)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Chen"
    title: "Da Chen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q608469"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump